
We have already seen significant changes in our weather systems in Scotland, including more rain during the winters. The weather extremes we experience are also changing, with wettest days getting wetter, as well as more intense storm events.


Recent high-profile events, such as named winter storms, have highlighted the magnitude of such events and the consequences which flooding can bring – not just physical but social and economic.
With these changes set to increase, we need to work together to ensure that Scotland’s places and communities thrive. This means taking a collaborative and fair approach to flooding and adapting to climate change, creating places and communities that are more resilient and which also deliver benefits for health, wellbeing and biodiversity.
At Verture we have over thirty years experience of fostering such a collaborative approach. We have established networks across sectors and broker engagement of those with a broad range of perspectives on the role of nature based solutions, engineering solutions and placemaking approaches. We have a long history of delivering research, events, sharing and informing good practice and policy.
We have a strong reputation in delivering an annual Flood Resilience conference, the leading event in the Scottish flooding community calendar, in its 20th year now attracting more than 700 delegates.
We also run a Coastal Change Knowledge Exchange programme, more information on that coming soon.
Flood Resilience Strategy for Scotland

The purpose of the Strategy is to change Scotland’s approach from ‘fixing flooding problems’ to creating flood resilient places; to lay out the principles to improve flood resilience, and to set out strategic changes that are needed, including how to build community flood resilience and engage a broader range of partners to deliver more diverse flood management actions faster.
Scotland’s Flood Resilience Conference


Implementing the Flood Resilience Strategy
We focussed on the key themes of People, Place and Process, delivering a diverse programme of talks, workshops and discussions.

More on flood resilience
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Flood Resilience Strategy Engagement Report
Alongside project partners Scottish Flood Forum and ClimateXChange we ran workshops to gather lived experiences of flooding.
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Scotland’s Flood Resilience Conference 2025 – 28 & 29 January
Scotland’s Flood Resilience Conference 2025 takes place on 28 & 29 January.
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Flood Resilience Conference
Scotland’s annual Flood Resilience Conference – the premier event for flood professionals and practitioners, researchers, policy makers and communities.